Events for December 2017
Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce
Nov 2 - Dec 20    East Meets West Art Exhibit
Exhibit on display at the OSHER@Dartmouth and Hanover League of NH Craftsman. November 2 – December 22 Meet the Artist Reception: Thursday, November 9 4:00 – 6:00 PM 7 Lebanon St, Suite 107 in Hanover Monday thru Thursday • 8:30 – 4:30 PM Fridays • 8:30 – 1:00 PM Hanover League of NH Craftsman 13 Lebanon St in Hanover Monday - Friday • 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM Saturday • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday • 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM Bruce and Ann Peck are professional artists who travel the globe to create their images. Bruce was born in India and later introduced Ann to this incredible culture on their honeymoon. Their frequent travels between New England and India influence the expressions of their very different artistic styles. Bruce's copper plate etchings reveal the exquisite detail of trees, informed by his earlier studies in botany. Ann's free flowing brush paintings with sumi ink on hand loomed raw silk, reflect her fascination with the art of rural village women in India that abstracts symbols from the natural world into expressions of daily life.
Date: November 2, 2017
Website: http://osher.dartmouth.edu/art_gallery/artgallery.html
Location: 7 Lebanon St, Suite 107 in Hanover Monday thru Thursday • 8:30 – 4:30 PM Fridays • 8:30 – 1:00 PM Hanover League of NH Craftsman 13 Lebanon St in Hanover Monday - Friday • 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM Saturday • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday • 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Contact: 603-646-0154
EMail: osher@dartmouth.edu
Date/Time Details: 7 Lebanon St, Suite 107 in Hanover Monday thru Thursday • 8:30 – 4:30 PM Fridays • 8:30 – 1:00 PM Hanover League of NH Craftsman 13 Lebanon St in Hanover Monday - Friday • 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM Saturday • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday • 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Fees/Admission: Free and open to the public.
Nov 14 - Jan 15    OSHER@Dartmouth Winter Term Registration is Open!
Winter term registration is open from November 14 - January 15. Winter term runs January 15 - March 9. Visit http://osher.dartmouth.edu/courses/ to see the full list of courses.
Date: November 14, 2017
Website: http://osher.dartmouth.edu/courses/
Location: 7 Lebanon Street, Suite 107 in Hanover
Contact: 603-646-0154
EMail: osher@dartmouth.edu
Date/Time Details: Monday – Thursday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM • Fridays: 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Fees/Admission: Annual Membership (expires June 30, 2018): $70 Course Fees: 8 hours or less: $40 10-12 hours: $60 14 hours or more: $80
Dec 1    Montshire Makers: Eraser Stamps
Calling all middle school makers: the tinkering studio is open! Come and spend First Fridays exploring new skills and hanging out with friends. Design, create, and build something cool—a robot that draws, an electronic blinky bug, tessellating designs. You’ll have a chance to use your imagination and sharpen your neurons. Sign-up for one session, or all of them, or just drop in. Each month will explore a different topic. Fridays 6:30–8 p.m. For Youth in Grades 6–9, pre-registration encouraged. • December 1: Eraser Stamps – Carve your own rubber stamps to create wrapping paper or fun gifts.
Date: December 1, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Website: https://www.montshire.org/programs/detail/montshire-makers
Location: Montshire Museum of Science One Montshire Road Norwich, VT 05055
EMail: pr@montshire.org
Date/Time Details: Friday, December 1, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Fees/Admission: Pre-registration Fee: Members: $8, non-members: $10; Registration at the Door: members: $12; non-members: $15.
Dec 4    Books and Beyond! Science for Preschoolers
This program combines children’s literature and hands-on activities for fun science learning and exploration. Each day features a different book and related science activity. For children ages 3-5 and their parents or caregivers.
Date: December 4, 2017
Time: 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Website: https://www.montshire.org/https://www.montshire.org/programs/detail/books-and-beyond1
Location: Montshire Museum of Science One Montshire Road Norwich, VT 05055
Contact: 802-649-2200
EMail: pr@montshire.org
Date/Time Details: December 4, 10:15 or 11:30 a.m.
Fees/Admission: Free with Museum admission.
Dec 7    The End of Empire: America's Fall from Grace?
For national security experts, the history of the United States can be usefully divided into two periods: the years after the break from Britain to 1947 and the years from that seminal year to the present. It is a helpful distinction because it divides republic from empire. Today, there is another year of note—2001. After 2001, the empire began to totter and crumble. Ironically, Osama bin Laden, the ascetic terrorist leader to whom the attacks of September of that year are attributed, cited this toppling of empire as his ultimate purpose. In short, not by the march of strong armies would America be brought down but by its own devices, a formulation familiar to Americans as distinctly different as John Adams and Abraham Lincoln. Evaluating several important signs of the diminishing power of the imperial state, we can conclude this process is well underway. The man currently occupying the White House, like Nero in Rome, is presiding most dramatically over this diminution of power, like melting water beneath Greenland affecting the cover ice, even accelerating it. Whether the imperial decline will consume a hundred years as the empire unravels, or be over tomorrow, is an important question today. A precipitous decline might dismember the state and shock much of the world; a slow retreat from power might allow for the orchestration of a gentle glide into a lesser statehood but a more peaceful and a more equitably prosperous world. Which it is to be—almost instant, perhaps cataclysmic death or a mellow maturation—along with how the human race will confront ultimately climate change, are the truly vital issues of this century. It is well worth the time to explore them. Lawrence Wilkerson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. His last positions in the US Government were chief of staff to Colin Powell at the U.S. Department of State (2002-2005) and Associate Director and member of that department's Policy Planning staff under Ambassador Richard Haass (2001-2002). Wilkerson served 31 years in the US Army as both enlisted man and officer from 1966 to 1997. His final assignments were as Special Assistant to then-Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell (1989-1993) and, later, as Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College (1993-1997).
Date: December 7, 2017
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Website: http://osher.dartmouth.edu/events_lectures/lectures.html
Location: Life Sciences Center - Room 100 Hanover, NH
Contact: 603-646-0154
EMail: osher@dartmouth.edu
Date/Time Details: Thursday, December 7 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Fees/Admission: Free and open to the public.
Dec 7    Clara's Dream, a nutcracker story
City Center Ballet company will present Clara’s Dream, a nutcracker story at the Lebanon Opera House December 7 through 10, 2017.
Date: December 7, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Website: http://www.citycenterballet.org
Location: Lebanon Opera House
Contact: Tad Nunez 603.448.9710
EMail: tnunez@citycenterballet.org
Date/Time Details: Thursday, Dec 7 at 7PM Saturday, Dec 9 at 1PM and 4PM Sunday, Dec 10 at 3PM
Fees/Admission: Ticket prices: Adults $19 to $38, students $9 to $19 Purchase tickets online at www.citycenterballet.org or at the Lebanon Opera House Ticket Office. An additional $5.00 per ticket is charge on the day of the performance.
Dec 14    Historic Homes of Runnemede Open House
Open house- Historic Homes of Runnemede, Windsor, Vermont, is a nonprofit residential care community for seniors, housed in three beautifully restored 19th century mansions. All three homes are located within walking distance of historic downtown Windsor, VT. The residents of Historic Homes of Runnemede enjoy independent living within a supportive environment that includes meals, housekeeping services, personal assistance as needed and medical supervision by our nursing staff. Both Stoughton House and Evarts House are licensed by the State of Vermont as residential care homes; they are enrolled as Assistive Community Care Service (ACCS) providers, and are approved to provide Enhanced ResCare (ERC) services.
Date: December 14, 2017
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Website: http://www.hhrliving.org/
Location: 40 Maxwell Perkins Lane Windsor, Vermont 05089
Contact: information@hhronline.org
EMail: BSpear@hhronline.org
Date/Time Details: 12/14/2017 13:00
Fees/Admission: free
Dec 27    Family Tinkering Programs: Chain Reactions
Work with provided materials and tools to build an oversized, collaborative Chain Reaction Machine. Each group will create a sequence of events which then triggers the next machine, and so on, to make a continuous chain reaction from the first machine to the last. Free with Museum admission.
Date: December 27, 2017
Time: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Website: https://www.montshire.org/programs/detail/family-tinkering-programs-chain-reactions
Location: Montshire Museum of Science One Montshire Road Norwich, VT 05055
Contact: 802-649-2200
EMail: pr@montshire.org
Date/Time Details: Wed Dec 27 & Thurs Dec 28 Noon - 4pm
Fees/Admission: Free with Museum admission.